Black Boy Run

Black boy run
You can shoot me from the back
See the black boy run
You can shoot me from the back
See the black boy run
You can shoot me from the back
See the black boy run
You can shoot me from the back
See the black boy run
See the black boy run
Now gold thangs
Be the new chattel chains
No change from this game of free labor through pain
Can you ‘splain why we slain
Are we threats to your name
Your position in this game
Or traditions of the same?
Is it us, who would run upon the earth to free our name?
Is it you who would bear upon your chest the mark of Cain?
Is it we who have bent upon our knees to quell your shame?
Is it thee who gon' lie and say you like Barack Hussein?
Can you ‘splain
Bantu Biko
Died for us to shoot for free throws
Peep holes right above the prison
People die so you could listen
To their culture through attrition
And get eaten by the pistons of this system
I see privilege in your vision
I see money as your mission
You can shoot me from the back
See this black boy run
You can shoot me from the back
See this black boy run
You can choke me from the back
See this black boy run
See this black boy run
See this black boy run
See this black boy run
Now see us rollin'
Over credence that was stolen
By catchers that look like Holden
Rye bones with spirits broken
Our flesh is started its moldin'
Yet our mouths murmur the omens
Just watch as they search for totems
Parables upon a scale the size of oceans
Fuck your motion
Fuck your sentence
Fuck the jury you be renting
Fuck the privilege you’re lamenting
Your 401k and pension
This that tension that this country
Leaves in digital suspension
While they count up on my mentions
Like stars in different dimensions
You gon' ride with our dissension
Or die while you repenting
I see money as your mission
I see privilege as your vision
You gon' ride with our dissension
Or die while you repenting
I see money as your mission
I see privilege as your vision
You can see 'em pullin' up
See the black boy run
You can see 'em pullin' up
See the black boy run
You can see 'em from the back
See the black boy run
You can see 'em from the back
See the black boy run
Black boy run
See that black boy run
Now, see that black boy run
See that black boy run
Now, see that black boy run
See that black boy run
Now, see that black boy run
Black boy run
See that black boy run
Now, see that black boy run
See that black boy run
Now, see that black boy run
Now, see that black boy run
Black boy run
Now, see that black boy run